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Amy Wright reads Acres Green©

Amy Wright is the Nonfiction Editor of Zone 3 Press and Zone 3 journal and the author of four poetry chapbooks. She received a Peter Taylor fellowship for the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission, and a...

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Contributor News: Monica Macansantos

Monica Macansantos (“The Day I Was a Comfort Woman,” Issue 4) has a new short story,“Maricel,” in The Fictioneer’s Winter 2015 issue.The Fictioneer is published by Unsolicited Press.Readers can order copies of the Winter 2015 issue or subscriptions from their...

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Contributor News: Colin Dodds

Colin Dodds (Issue 6, “Spill-O’s Fender Bender,” “Spill-O, After the Picadors,” Spill-O’s Hilton Revelation”)has a new ebook collection, Wisdom’s Real Opposite—101 Poems about an Odyssey on a Stool,currently available for purchase at Smashwords and Amazon.The book...

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Colin Dodds reads four Spill-O Poems

Colin Dodds grew up in Massachusetts and completed his education in New York City. His poetry has appeared in more than a hundred and seventy publications and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He is also the author of several novels, including WINDFALL and...

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Phyllis Brotherton reads Ice Storm, 2001

Phyllis Brotherton has a long career accounting for things. A late blooming writer, she received her MA in Creative Nonfiction in 2000 from Fresno State University and is currently a 3rd year MFA student there. Her work has appeared in the online journals Pithead...

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E. J. Evans reads A Story about Winter

E. J. Evans is a poet and essayist living in Cazenovia, New York.  His work has been published in Confrontation, Poetry East, The Midwest Quarterly, Hazmat Lit Review, and other literary journals.  He is currently at work on a book of autobiographical essays.

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Johnathan Harper reads Dinner for the Ducks

Johnathan Harper lives in Syracuse, New York, where he stays well away from duck ponds. He has been published in The Queer South: Essays and Poems, Hawai'i Pacific Review, Small Por[t]ions, etc. His chapbook Airplanes to Nowhere was a finalist in The Burnside Review's...

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Elizabeth Savage reads When in Autumn

Elizabeth Savage is author of Jane & Paige or Sister Goose (2011), Grammar (2012), and Idylliad (2015), all from Furniture Press Books. The current issue of Verse features her dossier-chapbook of twenty-six poems, titled Woman Looking at a Vase of Flowers. Her...

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Issue 6 | Winter 2014

The winter issue of Your Impossible Voice has arrived, featuring new work from Misty Ellingburg, Aysegul Savas, Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon, Álvaro Enrigue, Suzanne Heagy, Michael Pritchett, Carlos Labbé, Elizabeth Savage, Chad Hanson, Madeline Vardell, Colin Dodds, Amy Woschek Schmidt, Brian McCarty, Erik Anderson, Johnathan Harper, Phyllis Brotherton, and E.J. Evans. In addition to the amazing prose and poetry you’ve come to expect, our latest issue also includes an excerpt from a new graphic novel by Heinz Fenkl and The’ T. Nguyen. Cover art for issue 6 by Louis Staeble.

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2015 Your Impossible Voice Pushcart Nominations

We at Your Impossible Voice are thrilled to announce this year's nominations for the Pushcart Prize. A Coherent Desire by Francisco García González, translated by Mary G. BergEquisa by David BajoThe Elephant by Marianne VillanuevaFreezer Theater. 1981 by Laura...

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New poetry/videos by Karen An-hwei Lee

Karen An-hwei Lee (“Letter from Orange Country,” Issue 4) has a new chapbook, What the Sea Earns for a Living forthcoming from Quaci Press in December 2014. She has also produced a new poetry-video, which makes its debut here.   FIRE ON ANGEL ISLAND  for the...

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Contributor News: Marianne Villanueva

Marianne Villanueva (“The Elephant,” Issue 5) will beMendocino Art Center’s first Writer-in-Residence for January & February 2015.She has also collaborated on an opera, Marife,based on the true story of a Filipina mail-order bride who married Oklahoma City-bomber...

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Contributor News: Monica Macansantos

Congratulations to Monica Macansantos (“The Day I Was a Comfort Woman,” Issue 4),who was recently awarded a Victoria Doctoral Scholarshipby the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand,where she will be starting a PhD in Creative Writingat their International...

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Contributor News: Peter Burzynski

Peter Burzynski (“Emeralds and Olives,” Issue 4) has poems appearing in or forthcoming fromPrick of the Spindle (“Order Operatic”)The MackinacSouvenir Lit JournalWhite Stag JournalThe Portland ReviewandForklift Ohio.

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Contributor News: Nels Hanson

Nels Hanson (“Two Rivers,” “Orchid and Butterfly,” Issue 5) has work published or forthcoming atSharkpack Review AnnualThe StraddlerFour Chambers PressStoneboatMeat for TeaSqualorlyHamilton Stone ReviewSedimentsBlotteratureCarbon Culture ReviewWorks & DaysandThe...

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Contributor News: Stacey Levine

Stacey Levine (“A Man Hid,” “Bianca Said,” Issue 1) has two new stories you can read online:“Happy Birthday Kenny C.”at Paragraphitiand“Conference-Center Romance”at The Stranger.She will also be readingat Reed Collegeon Thursday, October 30, 6:30 p.m.Performing Arts...

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Contributor News: Kirsten Kaschock

Kirsten Kaschock (“To Throw, Fling, Hurl, or Toss,” Issue 4)has a new book of poetry outfrom the University of Pittsburgh Press titledThe Dotterywhich won The Donald Hall Prize for Poetryfrom the Association of Writers and Writing Programs last year.She will also be...

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Contributor News: Heather Mackey

Heather Mackey (reviews of Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon’s Nothing and Rodigo Rey Rosa’s Severina)will be reading from her debut novel DreamwoodThursday October 16, 6 p.m.at Lit on the Lake as part of LitquakeLake ChaletGondola Room1520 Lakeside DriveOakland, CA

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Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.

—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases

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